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 Study Backs Virtual 
 Colonoscopy 


Computer scan as effective as invasive procedure

USA Today USA Today Sep 18, 08 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new study has found a virtual colonoscopy to be almost as effective as a conventional invasive procedure in detecting colon cancer, USA Today reports. Virtual colonoscopies, using scans and computer imaging, discovered 90% of the cancers located by regular colonoscopies, in which a scope is physically passed through the colon, according to the study in the New England Journal of Medicine .     More »

More about:  American Cancer Society • colorectal cancer • Harvard Medical School • colonoscopy • CT scans

Colonoscopies Often Miss Dangerous Lesions: Study

Flat irregularities more dangerous than polyps

New York Times New York Times Mar 5, 08 12:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors searching for polyps during a colonoscopy need to focus more on flat or depressed lesions, the New York Times reports, which are more likely to grow into cancer—and more common in the US than previously thought, a study finds. Polyps, which protrude from intestinal lining, are easier to find; US doctors need more practice finding the lesions, one says. More »

More about:  cancer • cancer research • colon cancer • colonoscopy • intestines • polyp

Good for the President, Not for the People?

Bush receives, dismisses state-run
health care

San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle Jul 25, 07 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even as Bush knocks “government-run health care,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus points out, he receives a generous helping of it: The president's colonoscopy last week was of course performed by first-rate taxpayer-funded professionals at a taxpayer-funded facility. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Cuba • health care costs • colonoscopy

President's Colon Polyps Benign: Docs

Next cancer screening moved up, scheduled for 3 years from now

Associated Press Associated Press Jul 23, 07 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The five polyps removed from President Bush during his Saturday colonoscopy were benign, the AP reports. Tony Snow said today that Bush's doctors had not expected to find any malignant growths, and he will undergo a colonoscopy again in 2010 rather than waiting the usual 5 years because of his history of polyp growth. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Dick Cheney • president • colon cancer • colonoscopy • polyp

Bush Returns to Oval Office After Surgery

Cheney era over after docs
remove polyps from president

Reuters Reuters Jul 21, 07 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - George Bush resumed his duties as president today, two hours after voluntarily handing them over to VP Cheney while he underwent a colonoscopy. Bush is eager to get back to work, a White House spokesman said; Cheney spent his moment in the sun reading at home, and "nothing occurred that required him to take official action as acting president." More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Dick Cheney • presidency • colorectal cancer • colonoscopy

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